{"product_id":"book-2h1l","title":"A Matter of Fact","description":"Three journalists witness the unbelievable. Their biggest problem is not surviving it—it is convincing anyone else that it happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraveling from Cape Town to England aboard a small tramp steamer, three newspapermen expect an uneventful voyage home. Instead, a violent underwater disturbance sends a colossal wave across the sea and brings something extraordinary to the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere, beside the ship, the men witness a massive sea creature unlike anything known to science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the journalists, the encounter should be the story of a lifetime. But once the danger has passed, another problem emerges: how do you report a truth so incredible that no reasonable reader will believe it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Keller, Zuyland, and the narrator debate evidence, credibility, sensationalism, and the expectations of the newspaper-reading public, Rudyard Kipling turns a fantastic maritime encounter into a sharp and witty meditation on journalism, storytelling, and the strange relationship between fact and fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1892 and later collected in Many Inventions, A Matter of Fact blends sea adventure, speculative fiction, humor, and literary satire into one of Kipling's most unusual short stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated by Paul Landergan.","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67790168785200,"sku":"BD2h1l","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2h1l","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}